Unless you’re a maritime engineer and have a trained crew and materials to work with, the best thing you can do when the ship hits the iceberg is put on some warm clothes and head for the lifeboats.
I’m one person in a voting bloc of approx 168,000,000. It’s ridiculous for me to think that of the handful of issues I vote on each election that every one of them will go my way. Quite simply, there arent enough people who think exactly like me for my will to be enforced.
So, when I watch the news and see things that are going on around the world and in this country, it isnt too hard to make the leap that I cannot fix the situation, but what I can do is prepare myself and my world for the consequences. And thats pretty much what a survivalist is.
I can’t control the economic policy of this nation, I can’t control the Ukes and the Ivans, I can’t control the weather, and I can’t control the job market. All I can do is control my response to them. My response to these uncontrollable (by me) things has, and continues to be, to prepare for them as best I can.
Imagine two engineers standing on the deck of the Titanic as it is sinking, and they’re arguing about the best course of saving the ship. As they argue, the ship continues to sink further and further into the water. Instead of watching the two engineers argue, perhaps the best course of action is to head to the lifeboats.
Maybe the engineers can fix things, maybe not. But there’s no point in standing around wasting precious time watching them argue and, perhaps, uselessly trying to fix things when the lifeboats are filling up.
Maybe the world will straighten itself out. It usually does at some point (often after a really bad time). But instead of waiting around for things to get better, perhaps its a good idea to get ready for what happens if they dont get better.
Yes. And…
…if we don’t *** at the same time *** try to repair things then we’re just mitigating leaf-node impacts and effectively leaving trunk-node policy decisions in the hands of incompetents and enemies.
You consistently come across as extremely pessimistic about the human sphere. I get it, and that is not in any way a criticism. People are untrustworthy and generally suck. And sometimes people are incredibly kind, far-sighted and sacrificial. We can also create circumstances for hope.
I wonder if you have children? (I’m not asking, and it’s none of my business). It seems to me that if we have children we must…MUST…have hope, and work to increase it.
I guess in our own way we’re both advocating to hope for the best and prepare for the…most likely.
Tyrannies always fail (just maybe not in our lifetime). My private fear is that technology may have changed the circumstances under which that maxim holds true.
Amen!
Amen, Brother.
May we all live long enough to participate in the restoration of our once great Republic. These are the best times to be alive for Patriots and lovers of freedom.
The Truth, I am on board.
samuel whittemore was 78or 80 depending on the source, at concord. he killed three british, then drew his sword and attacked the charging enemy. shot in the face, bayoneted, and beaten with rifle butts he was left for dead, but was found by patriots attempting to reload his musket. he lived to fight again and survived the war. whenever i feel sorry for myself, i try to think of samuel. God save the republic.
In AA there is a saying “stay inside your hula hoop.”
If it’s outside of my hula hoop I can’t do shit about it. At best I can try to avoid other issues or mitigate how they will affect me. Avoid bar fights by not being at bars at midnight, stuff like that.
Also unless it’s coming into my hula hoop and directly personally affecting me I don’t worry about it much.
Awhile back a friend was real big stressed about some law a state all the way across the country passed. I told her I don’t live there, an am not going there so honestly I don’t care if they legalize the purge and cannibalism.
Bad laws passed in other states, especially Kalifornia, have a way of migrating accross the country. We should all be concerned about bad laws and resist them.
That’s a great point on what is outside our individual hola hoop. in the case of other states continued self destructive policies, with overspending, restrictive guns laws or letting burglars just steal, here is to voting in a Federal law authorizing the PURGE.
No nation can successfully continue on our current paths.
Best to learn from previous occurances,this is not the typical crisis but more like the Fall of Roman Empire with a side of Kymer Rouge. The barbarians are past the gate and inside the walls with heirarchies rooting them on hoping for power, economic systems are failing(on purpose) and basic civilization is in jeopardy, propoganda is so widespead as to make 1984 look instructionable. Fixed points and the center won’t hold this will be ugly or very ugly and the way back is almost impossible. Almost everyone under 30 is a lost cause and we need to inculcate the newest generation or the newest Dark Age is coming.
If a house is in such poor condition, black mold, rotting timbers, fleas, rats, leaking pipes, sagging foundation, etc. sometimes it’s better to just bulldoze it or burn it down and start over.
Maybe that’s where the US is now.
The house still has a great foundation and good bones. All that is required is for us to stongly demand that governments follow the ‘rule book’ (Constitution) and the will to enforce our demands in a no compromise manner.
Hope springs eternal in the hearts of men. Just saying.
Strongly demand?
The only demands our would-be rulers will follow are the ones put to them from behind millions of loaded guns.
(FTR, I am not inciting such, but merely expressing an opinion.)
When I was a teenager I used to poo-poo “societal norms”, why does that matter? Well…. here we are 30+ years later and it’s painful to see what the complete lack of norms can do to a society. How? People that haven’t done anything, other than play video games and organize protests from their mom’s basement, are put on the same footing as business owners, workers, and people that make society work. Too many wanting to tear down society with no regard for what it takes to make it work and no concept of how we got here.